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LOT 1443
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 - 4 1/4 in. (387 grams total, 8.4-10.7 cm).
Of triangular form each with a broad cutting edge and narrow butt. [3, Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.119, for type.
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